Truely amazing screenshot

[HuangShang]

k
i thought that they just toggled the fog of war for the screenshot

[Pedrunn]

Anyone,
Is someone interested in working with me in a project to make the CTP2 terrains (specially beaches) less square?

I can do the graphics but i wish i had someone to help me insert the graphics in the tile file, test it and if possible (i can do this on my own if not) help me with the connection of two tiles!

[The Big Mc]

yah the mythical early space destroyer only exists on one pic I know of and if you want to know what that is a tell you to just look at the back of your own ctp1 tech tree.

There are some early beta cities on the ctp1 cd any body interested I re spr them so they can grow. They are the early sea cities, genetic and diamond (diamond not yet finished). There available on the space scenario thread

Please not the two extra spr files in the ctp1 directory these appear to be copy of the swarm and space fighter but are infect slightly different.

[SMIFFGIG]

The REALLY annoying thig is if we do restore these old city sprites there wont be any room for them. The city sprite file is virtually full with Citymod2 and even then there are loads of styles still not even used eg Ctp1 genetic and diamond and the rest.

Its frustrating cause if there was no limit or a much larger one there would be loads of city styles we could have

If only we had the damn source code

[The Big Mc]

if only we could get it but activsion is making a killing with the sale of ctp and ctp2 at £10 .

I tried in vain to get hold of somebody because I wanted the beta war walker.

what I want to know is were are the beta images of ctp2

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
2: A SPRITEster? I want it!

No you don't. Well, not the one for CtP2 anyway, or at least not the one I have. It's total and utter crap. If it works at all, it must work in such an absurd way that you need elaborate documentation to be able to do anything useful with it (I certainly can't get it to work without documentation) and that's not very good. *Extremely* buggy too, if you do anything remotely CPU-intensive, the game crashes. Probably the reason why they never released it (they planned to)...

Isolated visible areas. Which means either units have been placed via the cheat menu, or the AI embassy bug is showing itself again...

Wasn't the embassy bug caused by the Diplomod?

[SMIFFGIG]

Now i love the way the random map is generated in this screenshot


the way icy terrain is at the poles, i wish this could be re-created in the current random maps only to a lesser degree (to keep it balanced and keep it from being stupid)

oh and i love this screenie, think its just cause of the cows in it





Oh and Big Mc whats this space destroyer your talking about ?

-James

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Locutus
No you don't. Well, not the one for CtP2 anyway, or at least not the one I have. It's total and utter crap. If it works at all, it must work in such an absurd way that you need elaborate documentation to be able to do anything useful with it (I certainly can't get it to work without documentation) and that's not very good. *Extremely* buggy too, if you do anything remotely CPU-intensive, the game crashes. Probably the reason why they never released it (they planned to)...

Still be nice to get my hands on at least once. Aaaargh. It's so frustrating. We have an almost-sprite reader, no sprite viewer despite a planned one, and a sprite creator without full docu.
Its not really any wonder there are more fully animated Civ3 FLICS than animated and non-animated CtP/2 sprites put together by a factor of two ALREADY.

/me checks ticket prices to the Netherlands*

[HuangShang]

Originally posted by Pedrunn
Anyone,
Is someone interested in working with me in a project to make the CTP2 terrains (specially beaches) less square?

I can do the graphics but i wish i had someone to help me insert the graphics in the tile file, test it and if possible (i can do this on my own if not) help me with the connection of two tiles!

i cant help but id love to see it

[SMIFFGIG]

originally posted by Big Mc

what I want to know is were are the beta images of ctp2

This is probably the earliest you will get

[SMIFFGIG]

Edit: Ignore floating white pixel next to poppies
Ok ive taken the beta fisheries, farm, open mine and poppies + Glass trade goods. They are ready to be put into a tile file for anybody who wishes how too

here is what they look like :

[SMIFFGIG]

Ignore the solid shadow as it will show up ok when put into tiledit (edit, what am i talking about they dont even go into tiledit... damn ive done the shadows wrong... how do i make them translucent) ? i was making the as if they where TI
This is just a screenshot to show u how similar they are to the original (mine and farm)

[SMIFFGIG]

i made these just for fun other image wont attach,,, anyway just shows all the stuff on different terrains and stuff and they look good

If u wanna download the Targas and a few other images showing them download them here: i think these would be a nice addition to the tile file

[HuangShang]

will any modders be using them

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by SMIFFGIG
Now i love the way the random map is generated in this screenshot

Actual the borders between icy and non icy terrain is a little bit to sharp. But if you like those maps just go into your userprofile.txt and find these lines:

MapPlugin0=dll\\map\\geometric.dll
MapPlugin1=dll\\map\\crater.dll
MapPlugin2=dll\\map\\plasma2.dll
MapPlugin3=dll\\map\\plasma2.dll

And alter the file so that it looks like that:

MapPlugin0=dll\\map\\geometric.dll
MapPlugin1=dll\\map\\crater.dll
MapPlugin2=dll\\map\\plasma2.dll
MapPlugin3=dll\\map\\fault.dll

So we see that map generation is not part of the ctp2.exe entirely but also part of some external *.dll files.

And by the way just in the case you did not voted for CTP1/2 in the Games Top List yet. Do it now.

-Martin